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Article: Career 'Development' leads De Rossi to sitcom
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 14, 2003
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Portia de Rossi, one of the stars of Fox's new sitcom "Arrested
Development," wasn't kidding when she played the competitive blond
barrister on "Ally McBeal."
De Rossi had actually studied law in her native Melbourne,
Australia. But jurisprudence left something to be desired.
She was 20 and already entrenched in law school when she made the
small independent film "Sirens."
"I didn't even want to be an actor when I made that movie," says
de Rossi.
"I thought it would be really fun and I was cast because I had a
very successful career doing TV commercials. In Australia it's called
modeling, but over here it's called acting. I never thought I could
act or that I wanted to act, but I read the ...